CMGG entry for mo'      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.)

Translation: macaw
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of mo'

A black and white drawing of a fishnet Description automatically generated                        A black and white drawing of a cartoon character Description automatically generated                         A black and white drawing of a lizard Description automatically generated                      A black and white drawing of a cartoon Description automatically generated                       

K&H.p85.#2              K&L.p16.#5                                                                                                         TOK.p26.r5.c2                     BMM9.p19.r5.c1                

MO’                            MO’                                                                                                                      mo [ / MO’]                         MO’                                       

 

A black and white drawing of a piece of food Description automatically generated

JM.p171.#1

MO’

 

                       

TOK.p11.r3.c2                      MHD.BP5.3

                                                 

MHD (Tolles)                          MHD (Stuart)                            MHD (Looper)
PNG Panel 3 Q’1                    PNG Stela 5 E1                         PNG Stela 12 K1

K’AN.<mo:TE’>                      <K’AN:na>.<mo:TE’>                AJ.<mo?:chi:hi>

 

·    Variants (2):

o A. Naturalistic – head of a parrot – features:

§ Boulder-shaped glyph with large distinct beak.

§ Round eye with a circle of touching dots around it – probably to indicate the very distinctive markings around the eye of a macaw.

·    TOK shows a bird head and labels this as mo (lowercase, no glottal stop at the end), this is probably not a typo, but rather his deliberate attempt to show a mo with the full animal head version, and how is derives from the MO’; strange that he doesn’t list MO’ in the same entry (could just have been accidentally omitted).

 

Syllabogram spellings of mo'

                                                   

JM.p172.#1           JM.p172.#2                 MC.p22.#1                                  

mo:o                       mo:o?                          mo.o.o                                        

 

·    Both instances of JM are from the name Mo’ Witz Ajaw, the Lord of Macaw Mountain.

·    Dorota Bojkowska: if the JM.p172.#2 is an o, then it is indeed a very strange variant of o.

·    Dorota Bojkowska doesn’t know why MC.p22.#1 has a double o.